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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26855	Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, the late universally honoured and loved Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench written by Richard Baxter at the request of Edward Stephens, Esq. ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1180; ESTC R1267	16,221	62

him purposely conceal the most of such his practical thoughts and works as the world now findeth by his Contemplations and other Writings He told me once how God brought him to a fixed Honour and Observation of the Lords Day That when he was young being in the West the sickness or death of some Relation at London made some matter of Estate to become his concernment which required his hastening to London from the West And he was commanded to travel on the Lords Day but I cannot well remember how many cross accidents befel him in his journey One Horse fell lame another died and much more which struck him with such sense of Divine Rebuke as he never forgot When I went out of the house in which he succeeded me I went into a greater over-against the Church-door The Town having great need of help for their Souls I Preached between the publick Sermous in my house taking the people with me to the Church to Common-Prayer and Sermon Morning and Evening The Judg told me that he thought that my course did the Church much service and would carry it so respectfully to me at my door that all the people might perceive his approbation But Dr. Reeves could not bear it but complained against me and the Bishop of London caused one Mr. Rosse of Brainford and Mr. Philips two Justices of the Peace to send their Warrants to apprehend me I told the Judg of the Warrant but askt him no counsel nor he gave me none but with tears shewed his sorrow The only time that ever I saw him weep So I was sent to the common Goal for Six Months by these two Justices by the procurement of the said Dr. Reeves His Majesties Chaplain Dean of Windsor Dean of Wolverhampton Parson of Horseley Parson of Acton When I came to move for my release upon a Habeas Corpus by the counsel of my great friend Serjeant Fountaine I found that the character which Judg Hale had given of me stood me in some stead and every one of the Four Judges of the Common-Pleas did not only acquit me but said more for me than my Council viz. Judg Wild Judg Archer Judg Tyrel and the Lord Chief Justice Vaughan and made me sensible how great a part of the Honour of His Majesties Government and the Peace of the Kingdom consisted in the Justice of the Judges And indeed Judg Hale would tell me that Bishop Usher was much prejudiced against Lawyers because the worst Causes find their Advocates but that he and Mr. Selden had convinced him of the Reasons of it to his satisfaction And that he did by acquaintance with them believe that there were as many honest men among Lawyers proportionably as among any Profession of men in England not excepting Bishops or Divines And I must needs say that the improvement of Reason the diverting men from Sensuality and Idleness the maintaining of Propriety and Justice and consequently the Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom is very much to be ascribed to the Judges and Lawyers But this Imprisonment brought me the great loss of converse with Judg Hale For the Parliament in the next Act against Conventicles put into it divers clauses suited to my case by which I was obliged to go dwell in another County and to forsake both London and my former habitation and yet the Justices of another County were partly enabled to pursue me Before I went the Judg had put into my hand Four Volumes in Folio which he had written to prove the Being and Providence of God the Immortality of the Soul and life to come the truth of Christianity and of every Book of the Scripture by it self besides the common proofs of the whole Three of the Four Volumes I had read over and was sent to the Goal before I read the Fourth I turn'd down a few leaves for some small Animadversions but had not time to give them him I could not then perswade him to review them for the Press The only fault I found with them of any moment was that great copiousness the effect of his fulness and patience which will be called tediousness by impatient Readers When we were separated he that would receive no Letters from any man about any matters which he was to judg was desirous of Letter-converse about our Philosophical and Spiritual Subjects I having then begun a Latin Methodus Theologiae sent him one of the Schemes before mentioned containing the Generals of the Philosophical part with some Notes upon it which he so over-valued that he urged me to proceed in the same way I objected against putting so much Philosophy though mostly but de homine in a Method of Theology but he rejected my Objections and resolved me to go on At last it pleased God to visit him with his mortal sickness Having had the Stone before which he found thick Pond-water better ease him of than the Gravel-Spring-water in a cold Journey an extraordinary Flux of Urine took him first and then such a pain in his side as forced him to let much Blood more than once to save him from sudden suffocation or oppression Ever after which he had death in his lapsed countenance flesh and strength with shortness of breath Dr. Willis in his life-time wrote his case without his name in an Observation in his Pharmaceut c. which was shortly Printed after his own death and before his Patient 's but I dare say it so crudely as is no honour to that book When he had striven a while under his disease he gave up his Place not so much from the apprehension of the nearness of his death for he could have died comfortably in his publick work but from the sense of his disability to discharge his part But he ceased not his studies and that upon Points which I could have wished him to let go being confident that he was not far from his end I sent him a book which I newly published for reconciling the controversies about Predestination Redemption Grace Free-will but desired him not to bestow too much of his precious time upon it But before he left his Place I found him at it so oft that I took the boldness to tell him that I thought more practical Writings were most suitable to his case who was going from this contentious world He gave me but little answer but I after found that he plied Practicals and Contemplatives in their season which he never thought meet to give me any account of Only in general he oft told me That the reason and season of his Writings against Atheism c. aforesaid were Both in his Circuit and at home he used to set apart some time for Meditation especially after the Evening publick Worship every Lords Day and that he could not so profitably keep his thoughts in connexion and method otherwise as by writing them down and withal that if there were any thing in them useful it was the way to keep it for after use And